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5 Euro Simone de Oliveira, Cu-Ni

Issuer Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda (INCM)
Year 2025
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Diameter 30 mm
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Mint INCM - Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, Lisbon, Portugal
Mintage 2025 INCM - - 30,000
Additional information

Simone de Oliveira — born in 1938 in Porto — became one of Portugal's defining popular voices of the 1960s, representing the country at Eurovision in 1969 with "Desfolhada Portuguesa." She finished in last place, but the song's folkloric roots made it an enduring piece of Portuguese musical identity. Her career later intersected uncomfortably with the Estado Novo regime's cultural machinery, a complication Portuguese cultural memory has not fully resolved.

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